March 19 -21

Watch Video. Make Dragon Paper Airplane Together

Dragon Paper Airplane

Choose 2 of the fun Paper Airplane Designs
1. Follow instructions to fold paper airplane
2. Add graphic design to our plane.
3. Include the name of the plane (Arrow, Bullet, Canard, Condor, Delta, Dragonfly, Raptor, Spade)
4. Include a positive message written on your plane so that someone could pick up your plane and read the message.

Fun Paper Airplanes Design

Graffiti

Graffiti Padlet

Graffiti Creator

Learn Graffiti

Graffiti Lessons

Lines Convey Emotion

Lavender Mist

Tree of Decisions

Branching Activity

The Power of Language ~ September 16

Picasso Example

Stuart Davis
Brainstorm a list of phrases related to safety in schools.
Example:
Safety in Numbers
Better safe than sorry
crossing the line
lockdown
Online Timer
Task:
Pick a phrase or word and illustrate its meaning visually.
Include words or letters in the drawing.
Materials
White Paper
Magazines, newspapers, stencils
Glue, scissors, pencils, coloured pencils and/or markers
www.wordle.net

Emotional Aspects of Colour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5-_nim1TF4
The Fauves (or the wild beasts in French) used the power of colour in their art:
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)
Andre Derain (1880-1954)
Harmony in Red
Picasso's The Tragedy

How do we use colour to describe our feelings?

I am feeling blue today.
I am so happy I want to paint the town red.